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As a point of note, there's research on this topic. Comments influence/bias how people feel/think about the content they read: http://blogs.scientificamerican.
by knowtheory 13y ago
As a point of note, there's research on this topic. Comments influence/bias how people feel/think about the content they read: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/2013/01/28/commenting-threads-good-bad-or-not-at-all/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/...
You're not just getting landscape, you're getting the messy human battlefield of human opinion (sometimes for better, often for worse).
Personally i wish there were a plugin that would prevent voting until you've opened the link and spent at least a minute on page :P
- aswanson 13y agoI think more often for better, at least for this forum. I read commentary first more probabalistically based on the hype-sensationalism character of the title. I dont subscribe to the hivemind theory, in almost every thread there is well-argued commentary falling on both sides of the issues presented. I don't want to reward linkbait and hype. A pdf link on the efficient implementation of the radon transform or compiler theory is much more likely to get an unfiltered click from me.
- elboru 13y agoI notice a trend here in HN, the first comment will most of the times be opposite to the article (this thread is just another example).